went crazy

VERB

become insane

Synonyms

STRONGEST

freak out go off lose it

WEAK

blow a gasket blow one's mind blow one's stack blow one's top crack up flip one's lid flip out fly off the handle go ballistic go bananas go batty go berserk go bonkers go buggy go cuckoo go daffy go haywire go kooky go loco go loony go mental go nuts go nutty go off one's rocker go off the deep end go off the wall go psycho go wacko go wacky lose control of oneself lose one's cool lose one's mind wig out

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went crazy

"We did a bit of advertising on social media, and it just went crazy!"

From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026

They went crazy; they released it and it became the Village People.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

“I just went crazy when she told me,” Smart said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2024

The whole neighborhood went crazy over this look.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2024

Now, you may have wondered what Zeke was doing during all of this, and later, after everything went crazy and he had a chance to look back on it all, he wondered, too.

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness